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SPC Final Exam Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: What is it important to do when arguing from example? ANS 🗹🗹: Account for
negative examples
Q: Rubin is working on building his derived credibility with his audience, so he is
dressing professionally and working on making eye contact with his audience members.
Which strategy is he employing? ANS 🗹🗹: Using nonverbal delivery cues
Q: Audiences do not assess your physical appearance in developing their initial
assessment of your credibility. ANS 🗹🗹: False
Q: In part of an address to a Joint Session of Congress following the 9/11 attacks,
President George W. Bush stated, "every nation, in every region, now has a decision to
make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Which fallacy does this
portion of the statement commit? ANS 🗹🗹: Either/or
Q: What is the perception of a speaker's expertise at the end of the speech called? ANS
🗹🗹: Terminal credibility
Q: What kind of fallacy occurs when the alleged cause fails to produce the effect? ANS
🗹🗹: False cause
Q: Danielle is giving a speech to young people about joining the Peace Corps. As a
member, Danielle knows the sense of accomplishment that she feels as a result of her
work with the corps. Which emotion can she most easily appeal to during her speech?
ANS 🗹🗹: Pride
Q: Rita wants to start a tutoring service, so she reaches out to her network to see if
anyone is interested in joining her as a tutor. She sends an email, posts it on her social
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media accounts, and puts a flyer up on the bulletin board at school. On which part of the
IDEA model is Rita focusing? ANS 🗹🗹: Distribution
Q: Sydney is giving a persuasive speech about the shift to making all cars electric. She
cites a law being proposed that states that all vehicles should be electric within ten
years. Sydney maintains that this proposed law is essentially a move by the government
to restrict the free movement of people since they will not be able to take long drives
anymore. Which logical fallacy is she using? ANS 🗹🗹: Straw man
Q: What is the three-part form of deductive reasoning known as? ANS 🗹🗹: syllogism
Q: What is the means of persuasion in which you construct logical arguments that
support your competence, credibility, and good character? ANS 🗹🗹: Ethos
Q: The warrant of an argument must always be verbalized to be persuasive. ANS 🗹🗹:
False
Q: What is a person experiencing when they perceive that they have no control over a
situation that threatens them? ANS 🗹🗹: Fear
Q: How is a claim defined? ANS 🗹🗹: Conclusion the persuader wants others to agree
with
Q: Roger is presenting information to his audience that he gathered via surveys and
questionnaires. In which way is he arguing? ANS 🗹🗹: From example
Q: Janine is about to leave for school, and it is raining outside. Her mother tells her to
take an umbrella with her so she will not be soaked when she gets to school. Janine
grabs an umbrella as she walks out the door. Which of these statements represents the
warrant in this interaction? ANS 🗹🗹: An umbrella will keep you from getting soaked.
Q: Regina created a feeling of hope for her audience with her speech about the future of
their community. What should be her goal now that she has created this positive
emotion? ANS 🗹🗹: To help her audience maintain or even enhance the feeling
SPC Final Exam Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: What is it important to do when arguing from example? ANS 🗹🗹: Account for
negative examples
Q: Rubin is working on building his derived credibility with his audience, so he is
dressing professionally and working on making eye contact with his audience members.
Which strategy is he employing? ANS 🗹🗹: Using nonverbal delivery cues
Q: Audiences do not assess your physical appearance in developing their initial
assessment of your credibility. ANS 🗹🗹: False
Q: In part of an address to a Joint Session of Congress following the 9/11 attacks,
President George W. Bush stated, "every nation, in every region, now has a decision to
make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Which fallacy does this
portion of the statement commit? ANS 🗹🗹: Either/or
Q: What is the perception of a speaker's expertise at the end of the speech called? ANS
🗹🗹: Terminal credibility
Q: What kind of fallacy occurs when the alleged cause fails to produce the effect? ANS
🗹🗹: False cause
Q: Danielle is giving a speech to young people about joining the Peace Corps. As a
member, Danielle knows the sense of accomplishment that she feels as a result of her
work with the corps. Which emotion can she most easily appeal to during her speech?
ANS 🗹🗹: Pride
Q: Rita wants to start a tutoring service, so she reaches out to her network to see if
anyone is interested in joining her as a tutor. She sends an email, posts it on her social
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media accounts, and puts a flyer up on the bulletin board at school. On which part of the
IDEA model is Rita focusing? ANS 🗹🗹: Distribution
Q: Sydney is giving a persuasive speech about the shift to making all cars electric. She
cites a law being proposed that states that all vehicles should be electric within ten
years. Sydney maintains that this proposed law is essentially a move by the government
to restrict the free movement of people since they will not be able to take long drives
anymore. Which logical fallacy is she using? ANS 🗹🗹: Straw man
Q: What is the three-part form of deductive reasoning known as? ANS 🗹🗹: syllogism
Q: What is the means of persuasion in which you construct logical arguments that
support your competence, credibility, and good character? ANS 🗹🗹: Ethos
Q: The warrant of an argument must always be verbalized to be persuasive. ANS 🗹🗹:
False
Q: What is a person experiencing when they perceive that they have no control over a
situation that threatens them? ANS 🗹🗹: Fear
Q: How is a claim defined? ANS 🗹🗹: Conclusion the persuader wants others to agree
with
Q: Roger is presenting information to his audience that he gathered via surveys and
questionnaires. In which way is he arguing? ANS 🗹🗹: From example
Q: Janine is about to leave for school, and it is raining outside. Her mother tells her to
take an umbrella with her so she will not be soaked when she gets to school. Janine
grabs an umbrella as she walks out the door. Which of these statements represents the
warrant in this interaction? ANS 🗹🗹: An umbrella will keep you from getting soaked.
Q: Regina created a feeling of hope for her audience with her speech about the future of
their community. What should be her goal now that she has created this positive
emotion? ANS 🗹🗹: To help her audience maintain or even enhance the feeling
